Publications

Mohd ON, Wang L, Sardella BR, Jou D, Wulf GM, Slack FJ, Heng YJ, Doyle PS. MicroRNA spatial profiling for assessing drug efficacy in BRCA1-related triple-negative breast tumors. eLife. 2026;15:RP112264.

Wang L, Sardella BR, Aronson EK, Liu Z, Li X, Wulf GM, Heng YJ. Simultaneous Inhibition of PARP/AKT to Intercept Nascent BRCA1/2mut Breast Tumors. npj Breast Cancer. 2026;2(1):27.

Yaghjyan L, Heng YJ, Guzman-Arocho YD, Colditz G, Sardella BR, Fu A, Patel K, Rosner BA, Ratcliff M, Tamimi RM. Reliability of breast stromal markers immunofluorescent staining: pathologist assessment compared to quantitative image analysis. Am J Cancer Res. 2026;16(5):1791–1804.

Yaghjyan L, Heng YJ, Sardella BR, Ratcliffe M, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM. Associations of oral contraceptives with expression of CD44, CD24, and ALDH1A1 stem cell markers in women with benign breast biopsies. Breast Cancer Res. 2026;28:135.

Tesch ME, Zheng Y, Guzman-Arocho YD, Collins LC, Heng YJ, Tayob N, Rosenberg SM, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Schapira L, et al. Association of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte subtypes with clinical characteristics and prognosis in young women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2026;32(11):2268–2278.

Ratcliffe M, Yaghjyan L, Heng YJ, Baker GM, Rosner BA, Tamimi RM. Associations of alcohol consumption with expression of CD44, CD24, and ALDH1A1 stem cell markers in benign breast biopsy samples. Cancer Causes Control. 2025;36:1489–1497.

Zhao S, Chen Q, Saiding Q, An S, Zhou Z, Heng YJ, Abdi, Tao W. Live bacterial chemistry in biomedicine. Chem. 2025;11(4):102436.

Kelly RL, Liu Y, Harris AR, Peng CK, Heng YJ, Baker GM, Stover DG, Tamimi RM, Kraft P. The breast tumor immune microenvironment of DNA double-strand break repair pathogenic variant carriers is enriched with tumor associated macrophages. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025;34 (6):868–874.

Oh H, Heng YJ, Baker GM, Sardella BR, Mahoney MR, Murthy D, Rosner B, Tamimi RM, Yaghjyan L. Associations of adiposity and growth measures with the expression of stem cell markers among women with benign breast biopsies in the Nurses’ Health Study II. Br J Cancer. 2025;133(11):1695–1707.

Peng C, Liu Y, Heng YJ, Bodelon C, Stover D, Chen WY, Holmes MD, Eliassen AH, Kraft P, Tamimi RM. The impact of reproductive factors on tumor and normal-adjacent tissue immune profile from menarche to menopause. Carcinogenesis. 2025;46:bgaf028.